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Person and God in a Spanish Valley: Revised Edition

Person and God in a Spanish Valley: Revised Edition

Christian, William A., Jr.

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0691028451
ISBN13: 9780691028453
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Mar 21 1989
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

A classic twentieth-century work in the anthropology of Catholicism

Person and God in a Spanish Valley is a moving portrait of how individuals and communities in a remote, mountainous valley of northern Spain relate to the divine. In the late 1960s, anthropologist and historian William A. Christian, Jr., conducted groundbreaking fieldwork in the Nansa Valley, one of the most devout regions of Spain. With sensitivity and uncommon insight, Christian describes the complex system of shrines, devotions, and pilgrimages that existed in the region for centuries, and recounts the disruption of the valley's traditional way of life as young priests from urban centers arrived carrying a more modern, Vatican II version of Catholicism. Person and God in a Spanish Valley places Catholic faith and practice within a broader history of agrarian politics and reform in northern Spain, and stands as a landmark work of modern anthropology.

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